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US-Argentina: Developing Multidisciplinary Global Skills to Prepare Engineering Students for Leading Sustainable Infrastructure Solutions
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Summer 2019
The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and the Universidad Nacional de Rosario have developed a new, bilateral exchange program for engineering students that focuses on leadership and sustainability. Students have participated and gained broader international perspectives crucial to solving global infrastructure problems. While abroad, students have participated in networking meetings, field visits, and workshops, and worked as bi-national teams to address specific problems and design collaborative, sustainable solutions. This program is one of the efforts to bridge the study abroad participation gap by prioritizing Hispanic and first-generation college students from UTEP and strengthening the capacities of both universities to offer opportunities abroad. In total, fifteen students (Northbound and Southbound) were financially supported through this program.
This program is a collaboration between The University of Texas at El Paso and Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná. The program will take place in Fall 2019. The focus of the program is on "Peace Engineering" to train future engineers on finding innovative engineering solutions through an understanding of the balance between sustainability, social equity, entrepreneurship, community engagement, innovation, and leadership to improve the well-being of people.
The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) in the United States and the University of Piura (UDEP) in Peru developed a summer faculty-led study abroad program that helps the U.S. and Peruvian students build the skills and knowledge required to tackle the global sustainability issues associated with the grand engineering challenges of this century such as: making solar energy economical, providing access to clean water and restoring and improving urban infrastructure. These challenges are of particular relevance in developing countries of the Americas.